Create clusters anywhere
Vanilla, K3s, Talos, VCluster and KWOK in Docker or on cloud servers, or managed EKS, GKE and AKS — with your choice of CNI, CSI and policy engine.
KSail Documentation
One CLI to create Kubernetes clusters and deliver to them with GitOps — the same workflow from your laptop to production.
What is KSail?
Section titled “What is KSail?”Running Kubernetes usually means installing and wiring together kind or k3d, kubectl, Helm, a GitOps
engine and SOPS — and every distribution does it a little differently. KSail embeds those tools in a
single binary driven by one ksail.yaml, so the same commands create, update and delete a cluster
whether it runs in Docker on your laptop or on cloud infrastructure. It writes native configs such as
kind.yaml and Talos patches, so you can keep using the underlying tools with or without KSail.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”Deliver with GitOps
Flux or ArgoCD built in. workload push packages your manifests as an OCI artifact and workload reconcile rolls them out.
Validate before you deploy
Schema-check and security-scan your manifests offline, with no cluster — an ideal CI gate.
Keep secrets in Git
Encrypt, decrypt and edit secrets with built-in SOPS and Age.
Run day-2 operations
Diagnose cluster health, back up and restore, mirror registries and onboard tenants.
Work your way
Use the terminal, the web UI or desktop app, the VS Code extension, or an AI assistant over chat or MCP.
Browse every feature by task.
Where to go next
Section titled “Where to go next”Choose your setup
Pick the distribution and provider that fit your goal. Compare →
Deliver with GitOps
The recommended workflow once your first cluster is running. Learn it →
Core concepts
How KSail separates what runs from where it runs. Understand →
Configuration
Every ksail.yaml field and how settings combine. Reference →